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This is a detailed interrogation report prepared in July 1945 by SCI Unit A of the Office of Strategic Services in Salzburg, Austria. The CIA later released it under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Its subject is Johann Sanitzer of the Vienna Gestapo, arrested on 7 June 1945. The report records his biography and police career and describes the radio deception games (Funkspiele) he ran with captured Soviet NKVD and Comintern agents. It also covers arrests he made after the 20 July plot. It has no UFO content.

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  • p. 8 …then occupied by Polish guerrillas it was never recuperated, and Subject "persuaded,' thei to begin a…
  • p. 9 …But that never wttkect out well.- Then Subject ' • began with HOTIARY. ant'll. his written , signal…
  • p. 10 …agents had a signal plan, but they never had to repeat theirnossages and ! . nessages of over…
  • p. 11 …Subject's Pah naiY have drunk tOomuphand missed Mn.- He never tained up again. SubjeCt-AVtlais…
  • p. 24 …was now convinced that the woman had never received any money from the Swiss man, n…
  • p. 30 …when a safe address was given, subject never gave the address of • V.Leute, but had…
  • p. 31 …has never been completed and was destroyed by Subject beforehis 141,i0tt.-. 3. a: radio log…
  • p. 33 …Later intercepts showed that these headquarters mere never able to keep their promise. 12. In another…
  • p. 35 …GUTTAiMANN would never have given himsalf :up had_hemot suffered his soriors logwohnd. .. He was sufficiently…
  • p. 36 …A courier who was Sent there to getthe.; signal.plan never reachod Subject.
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